4.3 Tahoe dump bug

Tad Guy tadguy at cs.odu.edu
Tue Dec 20 01:28:14 AEST 1988


In article <23642 at cornell.UUCP>, parmelee at wayback (Larry Parmelee) writes:
>[At 6250bpi] the 4.3 dump likes to block the tape records at 32k/block.
>The sun restore program is only expecting 10K blocks.
>...
>OR resign yourself to doing restores with 
>	"dd if=/dev/rmt8 ibs=32k obs=10k | restore f -", OR
>fix restore.

Or use the ``b'' key to restore to specify a different blocksize.  No
need to fix restore (well, at least not for block sizes), and this is
probably faster than using dd:  restore bf 32 -

	...tad

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Tad Guy         <tadguy at cs.odu.edu>     Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA



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